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Monday, December 3, 2012

IAF to hold biggest air show in Rajasthan - Daily Bhaskar | In the biggest possible air show in the history of IAF, the first range of fighter planes like Sukhoi 30 MKI, Indian light combat aircraft Tejas, Jaguar, Miraj and Mig series fighter planes will set imaginary target and destroy them. Besides, fighter ...

RIVERSIDE: March Air Museum hosts two Pearl Harbor survivors - Press-Enterprise | RIVERSIDE: March Air Museum hosts two Pearl Harbor survivors. /CONTRIBUTED IMAGE. U.S. Navy veteran Frank Verano is set to speak at the March Field Air Museum annual Pearl Harbor Remembrance Program set for Friday, Dec. 7, 2012. 1, of, 2 ...

Silver Wings Speakers Luncheon: MG Joe Anderson, USMC (Ret.), Jan. 24, 2013 from What is Silver Wings Over Washington? by Ron David | ...Joseph T. Anderson is the former Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum. He served 33 years in the United States Marine Corps, flew 219 combat missions, and commanded at every echelon of Marine Aviation....

Congratulations Dave from Nordo News by Rich Davidson | ...I was leaning on the wing strut of Dave's Husky and discussing with him the meaning of life when he told me something amazing. Oh wait, let me back up. Dave flew B-29's. Yeah, that's right; Dave flew B-29's and he's still out visiting with us whenever he can. So, back to where I was...

A forgotten mission, fraught with danger from Bayou Renaissance Man by Peter | ...A recent obituary of Kazimierz Szrajer, a Polish flier who served with the Royal Air Force during World War II, was a case in point. He flew on Operation Wildhorn III (also known as Most III) in 1944, intended to recover vital parts of a German V-2 ballistic missile. Here's how his obituary describes the mission...

Silver Wings Speakers Luncheon: Air Piracy & WASPs, November 14, 2009 from What is Silver Wings Over Washington? by Ron David | ...The Meeting at the Army-Navy Country Club in Arlington will take place on November 19th at 11AM. Our primary subjects of discussion will include a report on the first alleged act of air piracy, which occurred 70 years ago, a short video about the WASP followed by a Q&A with two former Womens Air Force Service Pilots, and a brief forum on plans for our Fraternity's coming year....

The fewer, prouder: women pilots fly alongside men from You Fly, Girl by Cathy Gale | ...She decided when hearing about the possibilities of being a pilot in the Marine Corps, that she would use that to aid her country in a time of need. This person, now a Marine pilot with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 462, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, is Capt. Charlene Wyman....

WASP pilot recaptures legacy of Fifinella - ArmyTimes.com | These women will be honored at the 10th annual gala of Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum on Dec. 21, which will feature many WASP pilots, including seven who live in Colorado. The traveling exhibit, "Fly Girls of WWII," runs through March at ...

Super Connie IV from Apron 6 | The people on the left and certainly the guy working on the engine show how big the plane actually is. I kinda like it how the lights lead you to the plane. I’m almost finished with this album. I will start with another album of the Photoflying Days then; including some nice sunset air to [...]

The 12 Flights of Christmas from General Aviation News by Janice Wood | SUN ’n FUN CAMPUS, LAKELAND, Fla. – The SUN ’n FUN staff and Board of Directors have spoken directly with Santa and SUN ’n FUN has been added to the Elf Team from the North Pole! Twelve lucky children will find a certificate under the tree this year for an airplane ride on Dec. 28 at SUN ’n FUN. For families who are finding it difficult to put Christmas gifts under the tree this year, there is another option...

A Day At Lindbergh Field Compressed from AVwebFlash Current Issue | Digital photo and video tinkerers continue to find new ways to create art with pixels and a San Diego film and photography professor challenged himself with a unique representation of short final at San Diego's Lindbergh Field. Cy Kuckenbaker compressed five hours of arrivals at the airport on Black Friday into a 26-second clip that turns the routine traffic into waves of aircraft visually stacked on each other. Watch it all the way to the end for a nice touch.

Deadly’s First Flight from Airspeed Online by Steve Tupper | Last month, I took Deadly up on her first GA flight. I wrote it up at AOPA’s Let’s go Flying blog and posted some of the stills on Facebook. But, if the flight had a primary media goal, it was to put together a video. I really wanted to use Enya’s piece, Storms in Africa, [...]

Day 46 - December 2, 2012 from TeenFlight! by TeenFlight Crew | After a hard day of work we almost completed the avionics installation. Because our fuselage and empennage kits were manufactured and delivered before the new avionics update was made standard, we have had to do some drilling to provide holes for the new components...

Soyuz launches to, docks with ISS from Flightglobal Events | A Soyuz rocket has successfully launched a Progress capsule from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS). The...